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"Coming off several career-clinching seasons of irregular, bright hues  and instructive styling ideas, Christopher Kane, London&amp;apos;s premier young  talent, plunged into murkier depths for Fall 2012. Palettes as a whole  tend to darken for winter &amp;#x2013; though that certainly hasn&amp;apos;t stopped him  from presenting safety orange or sky blue for cold weather before &amp;#x2013; but  this season, Kane seemed to distance himself noticeably from his typical  DayGlo spectrum. Deeply shimmering purples, navys and reds swirled like  lava over inky black backdrops, some appearing under plasticized  inlays, adding a strangely glazed texture to everything. Some of the  punchier dresses featured giant floral palettes, though even they felt  sinister. It was hard to tell if this was satire or legitimate gloom at  play; he shares this inscrutability with Lana Del Rey, whose music would  fit better with this collection than the one he launched her  catwalk-scoring career with last season.\r\nFor an experimental designer with an exhaustive, magpie approach to  creation, Kane has done exceedingly well at retail, though who his &amp;quot;core  customer&amp;quot; is remains unclear. For a few seasons, the Neon Raver was his  proud muse, with his key Spring 2011 collection literally fire-starting  an entire fluorescent-crazed juggernaut with the Vogue set and  feverish clubbers alike. But Kane isn&amp;apos;t content to be a vanguard &amp;#x2013; or  rather, he&amp;apos;s a vanguard because he isn&amp;apos;t content. He abandons ideas  frequently and tries new visions on for size, with his shoppers  following suit. Who will weather Kane&amp;apos;s new storm with him? Those whose  bank accounts allow them to be as fearless and restless as the designer  himself.\r\nRelated&amp;#x2022; London Fashion Week: Christopher Raeburn&amp;apos;s Arctic Warrior Women"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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